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Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters
March 17, 2026 at 8:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
The working-class whites who powered Trumps rise are, for the first time, opposed to how hes handling his job as president.
Prairie Gates
(8,031 posts)They're all on a triple down.
Diamond_Dog
(40,423 posts)WSHazel
(746 posts)White working class is getting more dug in.
White collar Republicans, on the other hand, are giving up on Trump and the GOP. The Democrats will win the midterms in the suburbs and big cities. The white working class towns and small cities are gone.
City Lights
(25,750 posts)that are MAGA are still thick in it with him.
Coventina
(29,645 posts)kimbutgar
(27,198 posts)propaganda and his lies. He can do no wrong and Iran threatened us they say!
dem4decades
(14,006 posts)yaesu
(9,264 posts)and it will happen is the fascist state big time.
BannonsLiver
(20,526 posts)And Im talking about the people on this side of the fence who wont accept the reality this is bad politics for him based solely on their own little anecdotal bubbles. Theres always some low info, low energy, intellectually lazy AF quip that is almost always utterly pointless. At least get some new lines, FFS.
Trueblue Texan
(4,412 posts)Torchlight
(6,757 posts)have all fallen back on what about? arguments over the course of the past two months. Support for the war is rapidly declining, even among his own base, leaving only a small, unfortunate group to continue insisting it's a valid and rational course of action despite the reality that the village idiot is in charge.
rustbeltvoice
(481 posts)unfortunately the term is partly a euphemism for racist, and he will not lose that segment. There wasn't much before, but after Hoover's Depression began (1929), there has been no reason for any member of the "white working class" to vote for a Republican; with Orange Caligula's beyond obvious evil, moreso. Some may think, i have gone too far writing that. I have not.
leftstreet
(40,340 posts)70sEraVet
(5,452 posts)They just wish it was more affordable.
ffr
(23,383 posts)But now GOP pocketbook policies are killing their bank accounts too. Oh no, they're feeling the pain they celebrated for others. Boo-hoo!
EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN.
Hassler
(4,910 posts)Anecdotally, the shitty MAGA flags have disappeared from my neighborhood. They're humiliated by him, but won't quit him. Think of little Marco in his clown shoes.
Norbert
(7,732 posts)The other day one of them couldn't figure out why Iran has such control over the Strait of Hormuz. I told him to look at a map of the region. It isn't that difficult to understand. DAMN.
Xavier Breath
(6,631 posts)senseandsensibility
(24,825 posts)Some of the females are waking up it sounds like.
hibbing
(10,583 posts)Reagan really did a number on our party. Remember "Reagan Democrats"? The Republican party and their friends in the media have somehow convinced many people to vote against their own economic self-interest. Is it all because of race?
Solomon
(12,642 posts)Yes.
BlueKota
(5,306 posts)Not all white men, but a lot of them are butt hurt that Democrats have been trying to level the playing field for people of color and women. Tsf tapped into their chest thumping rage, and their fear of becoming the minority. They don't want to loose their majority. Maybe they fear all the races and genders they helped suppress will turn the tables on them. It's funny how offended some of them act, when they are called racist or sexist, and they will deny it. Yet they aren't ashamed of themselves for their racist statements and actions.
I also include the women who love them. The ones who have the 1950s sitcom fantasies of being the perfect sweet little house wife who exists only to please her man, and let him make all those "hard decisions," so she feels "protected". 😒
LuvLoogie
(8,791 posts)All of them.
OC375
(841 posts)Everyone has already taken sides in their hearts. Figureheads matter little.
Alea iacta est
Martin68
(27,609 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,035 posts)That lot is just trying to follow the age old. military creed: CYA. (Cover Your Ass!)
They know he is not long for this world, and they are finally seeing that their 'messiah' is nothing of the kind. They are embarrassed and upset that he is not being enough of a racist here at home and he is not getting rid of 'the other' that is doing nothing more than actually contributing as opposed to the more... pasty... constituents who are trying to get rid of them.
They can sense what is coming. (At least what had damned well better be coming.)
Sorry, sycophants, you are part of the problem. The fact that you think we are going to just let you back into the society of human beings is pretty darn funny.
To quote Dredd: "Justice Time."
JT45242
(4,019 posts)If that group sits out the midterms, will be a huge blue wave.
Especially if they stay home in Texas.
Taking a Senate seat in texas and potentially undoing the gerrymandered maps in texas alone make a huge difference towards true democracy
samplegirl
(13,930 posts)They still dominate and don't want to lose their power.
It's so disgusting to see so many people still following the cult.
Republicans rule in N.E. Ohio
I was hoping gas and groceries would change their peas sized brains but not a chance.